Reigning Austin odd pop champions and 2014’s Deli Austin Artist of the Year Holiday Mountain are back to whack you upside the brain with a new and ultra-colorful music video that’ll get your summer party going. The vid, for new hard-dancing quirky ass pop song ‘Cómo Te Llamas,’ is all future fashion, exaggerated butts ‘n boobs and Holiday Mountain lead Laura Patiño using her trademark voice to ask what your name is while heading a troupe of brightly bedecked dancers (clothes designed by up-and-coming Austin fashion house Witchxxdoctor) through a surreal J-pop infused world of fun that has been put together by director Brittany Reeber. Holiday Mountain has been cemented as one of Austin’s groups most willing to flirt with pure pop music, while also being one of the acts most willing to push creative boundaries, and as you’ll see below, they’re still driving hard in that lane here in the middle of 2016. Get your weird on below, y’all.

Thanks to all the artists who submitted their music to be considered for The Deli's Best of Austin Year End Poll for Emerging Artists.

After tallying our editors' ratings for the Open Submissions stage, it’s time to release the results - which this year are interestingly heavy on the... folky ladies! Please note that to avoid conflicts no local editor was allowed to vote for bands in their own scene.

Total submissions from Austin: 32

Jurors: Jurors: QD Tran (The Deli Philly), Jordannah Elizabeth (The Deli SF), Paolo De Gregorio (The Deli NYC).

Acts advancing to our Readers/Fans Poll:

1. Grace London - 7.6 (out of 10)

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2. Taylor & the Wild Now - 7.16

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3. Leah Nobel - 7.16

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4. Molybden - 7

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5. Emily Wolfe - 7

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Honorable Mentions (scores above 6.5)

Holiday Mountain, Gossamer Frontier, Delaney Gibson, Wildcat Apollo, Jackie Venson, The Manifest Electric, Texas Microphone Massacre, KP and the Boom Boom, Dead Tree Duo, Calliope Musicals.

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WHAT’S NEXT: These results end the first phase of the poll. We have already unveiled full list of nominees that also includes the artists nominated by our local jurors (see left column here). It's now time for our readers to influence this Year End Poll for Emerging Austin Artists with their vote - look out for th readers' poll on the right column of this same page!

The Deli Austin

Holiday Mountain is a band that just wants you to have some damn fun. Watchin’ these cats live, you get the feeling that having fun is somethin’ they’re probably pretty good at themselves. If the last few years are any indication, though, there’s something else that Holiday Mountain is pretty darn good at, and that’s getting their music into ears and their name into minds all over the nation.

Just look at what they’ve been up to lately- hot off being The Deli’s 2013 winner of our Best of 2013 Poll for Emerging Austin Artists, Holiday Mountain just wrapped a tour with big-name act Ben Kweller and followed up that impressive feat with a residency at NYC locals-favorite venue Pianos. And, just this week, they nailed the #3 spot on Sonic Vault’s Top 25 Austin Bands of 2014 list, following a #1 showing last year.

Add to that a February 28 show at Empire Control Room & Garage with the inimitable electronic virtuoso RJD2 (one of the best live acts this writer has ever witnessed) and their album You Be You, set to drop soon, and 2015 looks to be only more of the same for Holiday Mountain. Get your ears on their new single below, look out for that album, and have some fun with Holiday Mountain dammit. -- Trevor Talley @defenderdefends

Deli Nation,

Our Year End Poll for Emerging Austin Artists was - as usual - a painstaking (and somewhat excruciating) process, but we pulled it of with remarkable flair! Kudos to Holiday Mountain for winning it!

First, we let the local bands submit their music (for free), and got our Deli editors to pick the nominees. Then we polled a list of 15+ Austin scene expert (our jury, list at the bottom) and asked them to nominate 3 more bands of their choice each. Then we polled our writers, then we polled our readers. We tried to keep things open for each single genre, from Indie Rock to Roots Music to Hip Hop.

If you are a geek interested in all the subtelties related to how this poll works, you can read its rules here (happy reading!). But if all you care about is the awesome new music Austin produced in the year 2013, this list is all you need. Enjoy!

BEST OF 2013 POLL FOR EMERGING AUSTIN ARTISTS - FINAL RESULTS -

ARTIST J W R OS TOT   1 Holiday Mountain 8   0.023   8.023 2 Emily Wolfe 4   0.023 1.5 5.523 3 Latasha Lee 5   0.038   5.038 4 The Flesh Lights 5   0.001   5.001 5 Criminal Birds     2 3 5 6 Mighty Mountain 2 2 0.57   4.57 7 Leopold & His Fiction 3 1 0.003   4.003 8 Ssleeperhold 4   0.001   4.001 9 White Walls 3   1   4 10 Isaiah the Mosaic 2   1.5   3.5   Tele Novella 3   0.5   3.5 12 Wheeler Brothers 3   0.064   3.064 13 Borzoi 3   0.039   3.039 14  Ben Ballinger 3   0.035   3.035 15  Easy Cameron Folkcore 3   0.011   3.011 16 Simple Circuit 3   0.01   3.01 17 Soul Track Mind 3   0.009   3.009 18 Blue Bear 3   0.005   3.005 19 Not in the Face 3   0.004   3.004 20 A Giant Dog 3   0.003   3.003   SURVIVE 3   0.003   3.003 22 Brennen Leigh & Noel McKay 3   0.002   3.002   Eagle Claw 3   0.002   3.002   EQUALS 3   0.002   3.002   Gorgeous Hands 3   0.002   3.002 26 Cartright 3   0.001   3.001   Ruby Fray 3   0.001   3.001 28 Megafauna 2 1 0   3   Silk Rodeo 3   0   3   Wild Bill & the Lost Knobs 3   0   3   The Sun Machine 2   0.051   2.051 32 Leo Rondeau 2   0.012   2.012 33 Riders Against the Storm 2   0.011   2.011 34 Dana Falconberry 2   0.009   2.009 35 Cool Piss 2   0.005   2.005   Mirror Travel 2   0.005   2.005 37 Migrant Kids 2   0.004   2.004   Shakey Graves 1 1 0.004   2.004 39 Growl 1   0.003 1 2.003   Hundred Visions 2   0.003   2.003 41 Boyfrndz 2   0.002   2.002   League of Extraodinary Gz 2   0.002   2.002   Strahan & the Good Neighbors 2   0.001   2.001   The Zoltars 2   0.001   2.001 45 Danny Malone   1   1 2   Gossamer Frontier 2   0   2   Institute 2       2 N/A   Living Grateful 2       2   SloMo Drag 2       2   Versus 2       2 N/A 51 Mayeaux & Broussard 1   0.072  0.5 1.572 52 The Vliets     0.002 1.5 1.502 53 Illustrations 1   0.059   1.059 54 Language Room     0.02 1 1.02 55 Roxy Roca 1   0.013   1.013 56 Auroravore 1   0.008   1.008 57 Max Frost 1   0.006   1.006 58 Lord Buffalo 1   0.005   1.005 59 American Sharks 1   0.004   1.004 60 Dylan C 1   0.003   1.003 61 Hooka Hey 1   0.002   1.002   Milezo     0.002 1 1.002   SIP SIP 1   0.002   1.002 64  Foe Destroyer     0.001 1 1.001   Grace London 1   0.001   1.001   Hikes     0.001 1 1.001   Suzanna Choffel 1   0.001   1.001 68 Bop English 1       1 N/A   Como Las Movies 1       1   Grape St 1   0   1   Massageinists 1       1 N/A   Party Girl 1       1 Legend: J = Jurors, W = Deli Writers, R = Deli Readers, OS = Open Submissions

List of Jurors:  Ryan (5th Street Studios), Laurie Gallardo (KUT/the Good Music Club), Eva Mueller (Spider House Ballroom), Dan Plunkett (End of an Ear), Max Meehan (Beer Land), Lance Villaincourt (Sonic Vault Austin), Brooke Wirth (C3), Carter Delloro (ovrld), Tyson Swindell (Red 7), Mark (Congress House Studios), Brittany Campbell (Parish/Scoot Inn), Michelle (North Door), Jessie (Waterloo Records), Lauren Bucherie (The Sessions), Eli (Switched On Austin), Maggie Lea (Cheer Up Charlie’s), John Laird (Side One Track One), Howdy Darrell (White Horse), Richard Whymark (The Good Music Club), Jennifer Houlihan (Austin Music People), Samantha Phelps (Boring Enormous), Gracie Luna (ATX Brands), Ross Bennett (Buzz Mill Coffee/Emo’s).

Hope you'll find some awesome new artists you weren't aware of!

The Deli's Staff

Holiday Mountain play hard. Dancing, glitter and matching neons are just a few staples that comprise the band’s energetic live show. What else would you expect from a psychedelic funk band? Holiday Mountain don’t take themselves too seriously and as a result, nobody in the audience does either; their crowds aren't afraid to follow suit and bust a move.

Holiday Mountain plans to release new music in early 2014 and was named Austin’s No. 1 Band of 2013 by Sonic Vault. (They have also been nominated for our poll so don't forget to vote!) Take part in the revelry this Saturday, January 18th at Austin Deli's Well-Being for Women Showcase at Spider House Ballroom. --Written by Gillian Driscoll